Justice E-Mails on Lam Show Frustrations (AP)

Source: Associated Press

Justice E-Mails on Lam Show Frustrations

By ERICA WERNER and ALLISON HOFFMAN, Associated Press Writers

Friday, March 23, 2007

(03-23) 13:03 PDT WASHINGTON (AP) --

In the year before her dismissal as San Diego's U.S. attorney,
Carol Lam's Justice Department bosses griped about her in snide
e-mails and strategized about putting her "on a very short leash."

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The e-mails, among more than 3,000 pages of documents released
this week by the House Judiciary Committee, suggest officials grew
frustrated by a prosecutor who had her own priorities and views.

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This past May 10 Lam notified the Justice Department she'd be
issuing search warrants for contractor Brent Wilkes and former CIA
No. 3 Kyle "Dusty" Foggo.

The next day, Justice Department chief of staff Kyle Sampson, who
resigned this month, wrote an e-mail to the White House counsel's
office asking to discuss "the real problem we have right now with
Carol Lam that leads me to conclude that we should have someone
ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her 4-year term expires."

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Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/03/23/national/w130342D26.DTL

Justice Department officials have cited her record on immigration and gun prosecutions as a reason for letting her go. Democrats including California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a member of the Judiciary Committee, are convinced there's more to it than that.

Lam won a bribery conviction from GOP Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham in 2005, and when she was fired she was prosecuting an ongoing corruption case, focused on Republicans, that grew from his plea.

This past May 10 Lam notified the Justice Department she'd be issuing search warrants for contractor Brent Wilkes and former CIA No. 3 Kyle "Dusty" Foggo.

The next day, Justice Department chief of staff Kyle Sampson, who resigned this month, wrote an e-mail to the White House counsel's office asking to discuss "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam that leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her 4-year term expires."

Democrats want to question Bush adviser Karl Rove and other top administration aides under oath, and the Judiciary Committee chairman and top Republican have asked Sampson to appear voluntarily on Thursday. Feinstein plans to seek answers on ties between Lam's firing and the Cunningham case.

"I'd like to ask whether there is a connection, and on Thursday I will have an opportunity to ask that question and you can be sure it will be asked," Feinstein told reporters Friday. She said she has been considering summoning career prosecutors from Lam's office to talk to Congress.

Which is kinda nearby to SD County in Riverside County ? Also, the CIA's Koreagate scandal didn't end on a solid footing either and just kind of disappeared in the fog of time. Are these 'black op' fundings, conveniently tied into the GOP's financing machine, all related somehow ? Doesn't Congress ('We, The People', remember us ?) have the right to investigate ?

Honey traps for all !

FBI probes Watergate prostitution allegations
Infamous hotel used by defense contractor to entertain lawmakers?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12634250/

""FBI agents are investigating what happened in the hotel's posh suites, which defense contractor Brent Wilkes turned into party suites for politicians and CIA officers.""

Enjoy our donuts and prostitutes !